Chronicles a heretofore untold story of civil rights in modern America. In embracing the Western urban experience, this book relates the struggle for civil rights and school desegregation in Denver, Colorado.

"This book tracks the struggle for civil rights and school desegregation in Denver, Colorado. It chronicles early legislative and political trends to promote Denver as a racially tolerant city while demonstrating some of the most significant attempts to maintain segregation by limiting educational and employment opportunities for minorities. This study proves that civil rights activism, and the need for it, lasted well beyond the years that typically defined the civil rights movement, and demonstrates the longstanding struggle in urban communities for civil rights" --